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-'''George Seldes''' (16 November 1890 &ndash; 2 July 1995) was an influential [[atheist]]<ref>"[My brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers." George Seldes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3rM0pGYtng8C Witness to a century: encounters with the noted, the notorious, and the three SOBs]'' (Random House Publishing Group, 1988) ISBN 0345353293, p. 8</ref> [[United States|American]] [[journalist]]. Although held up to the public as a "liberal,"<ref>Michael Kammen, "Introducton," in George Seldes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=_C8KCi6tZMsC The 7 Lively Arts]'' (Courier Dover Publications, 2001) ISBN 0486414736, pp. xii-xii</ref> he was actually a long-time secret member of the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] who lied about it.<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} "I never, never, never was a communist, even though [Communist Party General Secretary] [[Earl Browder]] kept asking me to join." Seldes quoted in Randolph T. Holhut, "[http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/bio.html The Forgotten Man of American Journalism: A Brief Biography of George Seldes]," ''Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press'' (brasscheck.com)</ref>
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-In 1940, during the [[Nazi-Soviet pact]], the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] decided to create an [[US|American]] version of the London political weekly, ''The Week'',<ref>David Randall, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MhNlAAAAMAAJ The Great Reporters]'' (Pluto Press, 2005) ISBN 0745322972, p. 85</ref> published by the muckraking British journalist Claud Cockburn, who was also a secret agent of the [[Comintern]].<ref>Chapman Pincher, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=netJI5stGlwC Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage against America and Great Britain]'' (Random House, Inc., 2009) ISBN 140006807X, pp. 43-47</ref> The resulting publication was ''In Fact'',<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0300123906, pp. 169-172</ref> a political newsletter that was extremely influential in shaping [[US|American]] public opinion in 1940-1950. This ostensibly "independent" periodical, supposedly published by Seldes and his partner, Bruce Minton,<ref>George Seldes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=x2dpAAAAIAAJ Never Tire of Protesting]'' (L. Stuart, 1968), p. 53</ref> was secretly funded by the Communist Party. Seldes later claimed that this was done through Minton without his knowledge.
-"Bruce Minton" was the cover name of Richard Bransten, another secret member of the Communist Party&mdash;a fact Seldes claimed was unknown to him at the time. Bransten was also a [[USSR|Soviet]] agent code-named "Informator."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=172 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=White Notebook No. 3 (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=1 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/White_Notebook_No.3_Translated.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> He was married to wealthy<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC Venona: decoding Soviet espionage in America] (Yale University Press, 1999) ISBN 0300077718, p. 232</ref> [[San Francisco]] socialite [[Louise Bransten]], who was yet another secret member of the Communist Party.<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0300123906, p. 88</ref> She was also not only another Soviet agent<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 263</ref> (code-named ''Lyre''),<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=7s0NGIfflOgC Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller]'' (Macmillan, 2003) ISBN 080506589X, p. 129 (cf. [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18mar_pash.pdf 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 18 March 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/7jun_corday.pdf 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 7 June 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/22jun_greeting_charlotte_corday.pdf 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 22 June 1944</ref> but the mistress<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 257</ref> of [[NKVD]] San Francisco Station Chief [[Grigory Kheifets]].<ref>Daniel J Mulvenna, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0208&week=d&msg=2UO5GGvif1xPsNJ1mNou7A&user=&pw= Wales on Polenberg], H-DIPLO Discussion Log, H-Net (The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University), August 27, 2002</ref>
-When [[Joseph McCarthy]] asked Seldes if he were a [[Communist]], Seldes vehemently denied [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] membership. According to [[Library of Congress]] [[Cold War]] historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/haynes.html |title=Cold War Historian John Haynes Named Kluge Staff Fellow |author=Villamil, Patricia |work=Information Bulletin |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> John Earl Haynes, [[Emory University]] professor of politics and history<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.polisci.emory.edu/facultypages/klehr.htm |title=Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History |work=Department of Political Science |publisher=Emory University |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Harvey Klehr, and former KGB agent<ref>"Alexander Vassiliev is ... a former KGB agent...."{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=31935 |title=Alexander Vassiliev, author spotlight |publisher=Random House, Inc. |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Alexander Vassiliev, "Seldes lied."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>
-Seldes was actually a long-time secret member of the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]], according to notes of [[KGB]] archival files made by Vassiliev in 1993-96. A cable from the [[NKVD]]'s [[New York City|New York]] station to [[Moscow]] Center, dated April 19, 1940, identifies "George Seldes" as "a longtime fellowcountryman [Communist Party member],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales-2/ |title=The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version) |first1=Kai |last1=Bird |first2=Svenlana |last2=Chervonnaya |year=2007 |publisher=theamericanscholar.org (Phi Beta Kappa Society) |accessdate=9 January 2011 |quote=In Venona cables, Communist Party membership appears under the cover word of 'zemlyak' (plural: 'zemlyaki'; feminine: 'zemlyachka'), which was translated by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] as 'fellowcountryman'....}}</ref> who is listed on a special register [secret roll of Communist Party members]."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Translated1.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}; {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Original) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |editor1-first=John Earl |editor1-last=Haynes |editor2-first=Phillip B. |editor3=Redko |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 (PDF p. 83) |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Original.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>
-"The word got around that I was a communist," said Seldes. The circulation of ''In Fact'' declined, and in 1950, the newsletter ceased publication. Two years later, Seldes urged [[I.F. Stone]]&mdash;who had lauded Seldes as a "distinguished foreign correspondent and crusading liberal journalist"<ref>[http://www.ifstone.org/biography.php A Word about Myself] (The Official Web Site of I.F. Stone)</ref>&mdash;to pick up where he had left off. "In 1952 I was over in Paris  as correspondent for a paper that I knew wouldn't last very long," said Stone. "George [Seldes] saw me over there and encouraged me to start a little weekly like his."<ref>Quoted in John Guttenplan, "[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-george-seldes-1591344.html Obituary: George Seldes]," ''The Independent'' (London), July 14, 1995</ref> In 1953, Stone began his own very influential newsletter, ''I.F. Stone's Weekly'', which he published until 1971.<ref>[http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php I.F. Stone’s Weekly], The Writings of I.F. Stone (The Official Web Site of I.F. Stone)</ref> Stone was a Soviet “agent of influence,”<ref>Oleg Kalugin and Fen Montaigne, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=OqkNAAAACAAJ The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence & Espionage Against the West]'' (Darby, Penn.: Diane Publishing Company, 1994), ISBN 0788151118, p. 74</ref> according to Oleg Kalugin, former head of [[KGB]] operations in the United States.<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 247</ref>
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